Can Saturday's measures, along with the ones announced earlier, provide a real and tangible solution to Indian realty problems like stalled projects, funding crunch faced by developers and homebuyer stress? ET's Kailash Babar has more. (Text: PTI/ET Online)

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Saturday introduced RoDTEP - Remission Of Duties for Export Products - to replace the existing Merchandise Export From India (MEIS). Revenue foregone as a result of RoDTEP implementation would be Rs 50,000 crore, she said. Sitharaman also announced interest equalisation for MSMEs to 5 per cent from 3 per cent. She said for small procedural defaults, small tax payers would not be prosecuted. The minister added that all communications with assesses will be through technology or complete faceless dealings. Listen-in. (Text: IANS)

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has announced a Rs 10,000 cr special window to boost affordable housing. The contributions to the fund will be sourced from the Govt, LIC, Banks and sovereign funds. Watch full report by ET NOW's Ruchi Bhatia

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Saturday said inflation is under control and there is a clear sign of revival of industrial production. Addressing the third press conference to announce measures to boost economy, the minister said inflation has been kept "very much" below 4 per cent. Listen-in. (Text: PTI)

“There is a shortage of enumerators and we are looking at some capacity building for core survey work,” said an official in the know of the details but said there are no numbers to corroborate how many statisticians the country can produce.